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Study of man in truck based on the story John told me

Study of man in truck based on the story John told me is based on an interview with an officer who retells a story Margaret

Burrow Me

Presented inside an earth-lined burrow, Burrow Me invites us to take part in the story of the inhabitant of an underground lair, built into the

Tomorrow Everything Will Be Alright

A late night online chat between two men who haven’t met since the turn of the millennium leads to their reunion after ten years of

The Coat

The Coat depicts a dramatic love triangle between two brothers obsessed with the game of sudoku and a beautiful young woman from east Germany. As

Pulmo Marina

Against a uniform background of purest Yves Klein blue, a pale yellow jellyfish roils and bristles like a fragment of living lace, while a slightly

A Love Story

A Love Story is a miniature narrative in four acts where time becomes fluid as the image is distilled to its inner self. The film

Monolog

Laure Prouvost parodies her own role as a director, and our role as an audience, as she directs attention to the screening space itself. Winner

Owt

“The video is of a self-proclaimed curator of artists video works explaining what he sees as the role and function of video art, quoting Walter

Monuments

The artists Robert Smithson and Gordon Matta-Clark are revived from the dead and ejected from their makeshift mausoleums in New York by the forces of

Despair

Glasgow-based artist Stephen Sutcliffes film Despair (2009) is inspired by and titled after the 1934 Vladimir Nabokov novel, a story of mistaken physical resemblance, murder

My Friends

Using a still image of a group of elderly people, a strange portal is opened into to a series of believable and unbelievable adventures of

Blue Bird

In Blue Bird the beautiful Blue Bird of the title, “with a bit of red on one side”, lands amongst a flock of dowdy grey

The Add Series 1-10

A series of very short narratives woven from meagre materials: a pen on a desktop becomes a cautious lizard, a carpet in close-up becomes a

Eva 42 Years Old

“Laure Prouvost’s film opens with… the words, softly spoken, ‘My name is Eva, I am 43 years old’. A few seconds later we find ourselves

The Desert People

David Lamelas describes it as “a study on American film production”. The Desert People begins like a classic road-movie. The setting is completely familiar to

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